The Innovation and Excellence awards is by far the most celebrated category in the Corporate LiveWire awards recognizing winners for their innovative ideas, global involvement, products, services and much more. The Innovation and Excellence Awards are sponsored by The International Business Innovation Association (InBIA), a global non-profit member network that serves a diverse group of 2,200+ entrepreneurship centers.

Elizabeth Moore, Awards Director of the 2017 Innovation & Excellence Awards commented on the stature of the winners: “I have seen a massive change in innovation going into 2017, billions have been spent in R&D and to work with the most influence people in the industry has been an experience to remember. Our winners have proven to overcome many economic changes and challenges including developments in legislation and politics. I would like to personally congratulate all of our winners and I look forward to seeing further success throughout 2017”.

The judging panel at Corporate LiveWire considered the strengths of each shortlisted candidate, setting its sights firmly on the most innovative, ground-breaking and client-focused firms, teams and individuals who have transformed the way in which they do business. Each winner was chosen on merit and has shown excellence, innovation and strong leadership throughout their various activities over the past calendar year.

DDi has been awarded as winner in Global Excellence in Life Science Technology by Corporate LiveWire for showing excellence by thinking innovatively and utilizing functional domain well, as well as significantly lowering data costs per patient.

DDi’s technology deals with massive data collected from multiple systems, posing the great challenge of maintaining data integrity and correctness. With a series of policies, processes, standards and tools in place, DDi is able to successfully manage their critical data. A move towards standardizing the data and incorporating checks and balances sees that incorrect data is prevented from entering their system and so DDi is able to offer insightful reports in a meaningful way, with correct metadata and mapping that ensures the data flow from source to destination is seamless and presented with utmost accuracy. Indeed, companies need the best IT systems and tools to manage their research and development, and DDi focuses on this highly specialized area, offering e-clinical products and solutions that enable clinical research and trial designs to work with high computing power and analysis.